Cover Tutor

The Role

About the Role:

As a Cover Tutor at HMP Millsike, you will provide essential support across various academic and vocational subjects, stepping in to cover classes during absences to maintain continuity. Your role is vital to keeping learners engaged, promoting digital literacy, communication, and employability skills while fostering a respectful learning environment through restorative practices.

Key Highlights:

• Join the launch of HMP Millsike, a brand-new prison estate opening in Spring 2025, and shape the educational journey from day one.
• Teach across Maths, English, ESOL, Business, ICT, Media, Employability, Art & Pottery, and more, adapting to cover classes when needed.
• Help reduce reoffending rates by promoting literacy, employability, and life skills that support successful reintegration.

Your Key Responsibilities:

• Lesson Delivery: Engage and inspire learners with high-quality lessons across multiple disciplines, keeping them motivated and progressing.
• Individualised Support: Adapt lessons to meet the varied needs of learners, offering one-to-one coaching and focusing on reading, literacy, and personal development.
• Restorative Practices: Create a positive, inclusive classroom environment that promotes responsibility, teamwork, and respect.
• Admin & Compliance: Complete required documentation, track learner progress, prepare exams, and submit reasonable adjustments where needed.
• Collaborative Approach: Work closely with other tutors, learning support practitioners, and prison staff to provide cohesive support, especially for neurodiverse learners.

Requirements:

• Level 2 in Maths and English, and Level 2 in ICT, Business, or Employability skills.
• Full Level 5 teaching qualification (PGCE, Cert Ed, DTTLS) is highly deisreable, or willingness to work towards.
• Strong adaptability, planning, and organisational skills; experience with reasonable adjustments and understanding of the OFSTED framework.

Apply Today:

Ready to make a difference? Apply now to join HMP Millsike's pioneering education team. For more details, click "Apply Now."

Working Hours:This is a full-time role, 38.5 hours per week, with the following schedule:

• Four days per week: 8:00 AM to 5:30 PM
• One half-day per week: either 8:00 AM to 12:30 PM or 1:00 PM to 5:30 PM

Who We Are

Here at People Plus, we make a positive difference to people's lives - every single day.

As part of The Staffline Group, we use our experience to support hundreds of thousands of people each year.

Our committed teams work across Britain to deliver a range of public services, including employment support, skills training, independent living, prison education, starting a business, and support to help employers grow.

To put it simply, we:

• Support people to find and keep jobs
• Help people to set up their own businesses
• Deliver skills training to further people's careers
• Work with employers to build a skilled and happy workforce
• Rehabilitate people with convictions
• Tackle the root causes of offending
• Help people to live independently
• Support carers

We are extremely proud to be a Silver accredited Investors in People organisation. This means that at PeoplePlus, the right principles are in place but more than that, it means our people and leaders are making active efforts to make sure that there's real consistency and everyone in the organisation can feel the effects.